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Please, add any missing ingredients for these cookies to your grocery list ASAP — you need to make them STAT! They are like banana nut bread and chocolate chip cookies fighting and making up in your mouth. And they are loaded with good for you ingredients — like bananas, whole wheat flour, and oats (and yes, a stick and a half of butter, too).

Before you ask, yes, that’s milk on the rocks. Growing up, my grandfather operated a large dairy farm. We were only allowed to drink his brand of milk, whole fat of course, and always on the rocks. And a big refreshing gulp of it was always followed by a loud and satisfying, “Aaahhhmmm!!!” And truthfully, it still is, even if it is only in my head instead of out loud, even if the dairy farm has morphed into high dollar residential real estate, and even if the milk is 1% instead of whole fat. My grandfather would like these cookies, and the next time I see him, I will take him a batch so we can dunk them in our milk on the rocks and say “Aaahhhmmm!!!” out loud together just like when I was a kid :)

P.S. My grandfather grew, harvested, and shelled the pecans that went into these cookies. He keeps my freezer stocked with several gallons every season. How sweet is he? See now why he’s getting some cookies soon?